The Cult of True Victimhood

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Demonstrates how the campaign against qvictim politicsq and the qvictim mentalityq has profoundly altered Americans' understanding of victimhood, and investigates the consequences of this change in politics, law, culture, and the qwar against terror.qGeorge Lakoff, aquot;Metaphors of Terror, aquot; www.press.uchicago.edu/News/ 911lakoff.
html, September 16, 2001, 5. 5. aquot;Interview with Joel Osteen, aquot; CNN Larry King Live
, June 20, 2005, http:// transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/20/lkl.o1.html.

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The Cult of True Victimhood

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Alyson Manda Cole

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Stanford University Press - 2007

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